Guangdong sees growing trade with Asean countries in Q1


Workers labour at a factory for Chinese telecommunications company OPPO in Dongguan, in southern China's Guangdong Province. - AP

GUANGZHOU (Xinhua): South China's Guangdong Province saw its trade with Asean countries grow by 7.7 per cent year on year in the first quarter, while its total foreign trade volume dropped due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The customs office of Guangdong said that the province's total trade volume in the first three month of this year dropped 11.8 per cent year on year to 1.37 trillion yuan (US$193 billion), with exports down 14.4 per cent and imports down 7.8 per cent year on year.

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